Gary Ray Kurdelmeier

Sports: Wrestling, Wrestling Coach

Inducted: 1998

Wrestling Coach 1972-76, Wrestling 1956-57-58

Coached two Olympians, two NCAA team championships in 1975, 76, three consecutive Big Ten Conference team championships in 1974, 75, 76, and athletes to six NCAA and ten Big Ten Conference individual titles; named College Coach of the Year and Man of the Year in 1975; career record of 51-7-5 (.801) and Big Ten Conference record of 44-6-5 (.800); as an athlete, NCAA champion at 177 pounds in 1958, Big Ten Conference champion in 1957, and captain of wrestling team in 1958.